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I've been talking about Five Guys for years... after all it started in DC. The fact that this is your first visit there indicates a severe amount of FAIL.

Uh Darlin you DOUBLE fail. My first visit to 5 Guys was in Fredericksburg Virginia (the Central Park location)back in '05ish, not only that I've patronized this one in SA several times.

btw, I dont remember the Cajun fries last time I went. Had them this time but half way through the cup I was sweating. Suckers are SPICY. I found myself wiping off the red and black seasoning just so I could finish them.

@Den- The thing is I used to eat this way everday , I'm expecting my cholesterol to plummet with the changes Ive made.

Well, I barreled through the 170 mark before christmas. But since Ive been on crutches for the last week I am sure I have lost a few pounds. (It such a pain in the ass to fix dinner or go to fast food joints while on crutches). but let me go get an official figure...

Just saw that Five Guys is opening up about a mile from where I live -and also saw that the Alaska Coffee Roasting Company has just opened up about a block from where the Five Guys is going to be...... I really have to get over to Biscayne Blvd. more often than once every two weeks (it changes that quick).

@ MissP the Skeptic... I am a lovely 5'11''. So do the math...5'11' and !65 is pretty much the perfect body. I believe BRad pitt has the same voluptious measurements.

I thought you were around that -- so why did you say you'd blimped up 30 pounds a few months ago? I don't recall any miraculous dieting... quite the contrary. Hence the suspected lying, kind of like with your age.

Naw, we have five guys downtown, down South, up North (where my brother lives) and even up where my mother is - but there were none within 5 miles of my place - this one is like a five minute ride away - if that.

I will have to check out the Alaska Roasting Company this weekend - see what kind of coffee they have going on and see what kind of coal fired pizzas they have.

I thought you were around that -- so why did you say you'd blimped up 30 pounds a few months ago? I don't recall any miraculous dieting... quite the contrary. Hence the suspected lying, kind of like with your age.

See this is how rumors get started, you take facts and then start massaging them (kinda like you do to my age) it wasnt 30 pounds it was 19 and I used to weigh around 147ish up until I quit smoking, then ballooned up into the mid 160's.

See this is how rumors get started, you take facts and then start massaging them (kinda like you do to my age) it wasnt 30 pounds it was 19 and I used to weigh around 147ish up until I quit smoking, then ballooned up into the mid 160's.

147? You must have looked like a concentration camp victim. These numbers aren't adding up.

Please, gramps where are your bifocals. No, they do not have Tacos de whatever, that is just a passing fad in Philadelphia.

"passing fad"? Pa-leez... they don't serve them at yuppie/hipster quasi-Mex places. They only have them at hole in the wall establishments where you're the only honky in the house and some guy from Puebla state is doing the cooking while his wife and daughter run the front of the house.

Sorry you have to endure a suburban strip mall though for your eats. That must suck chunks.

I just ate all my leftover Christmass chocolates. I had several bags of those Ghirardeli squares with a variety of fillings. I had to sample them all. The dark chocolate and salted carmel is insanely good.

I just had a 12" Italian hoagie with all the works: Coppa, Spicy Capicola, Mortadella, Provolone, onion, roasted red peppers, vinaigrette, red chiles, and artichoke hearts. Oh, and two large 4th St Bakery chocolate chip cookies (still too chilly for that tasty gelato that Wumpy scorns out of jealousy)

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

And just to prove that I can eat fat laden food as well as be a complete lush (even if an upscale elitist one) I present this picture of my food shopping this afternoon, all non-supermarket scores, non-suburban, and with only the power of my hobbled footsies.

And just to prove that I can eat fat laden food as well as be a complete lush (even if an upscale elitist one) I present this picture of my food shopping this afternoon, all non-supermarket scores, non-suburban, and with only the power of my hobbled footsies.

and I would like to present my delighful Waffle Cone Hot Fudge Sunday (extra peanuts) from the huge corporation Dairy Queen that I drove my large gas guzzling vehicle to get...

I just had a 12" Italian hoagie with all the works: Coppa, Spicy Capicola, Mortadella, Provolone, onion, roasted red peppers, vinaigrette, red chiles, and artichoke hearts....click for pix...

This is what I miss about living in the Northeast (Jersey boy here!). No artichokes for me, though, with all due respect to Catherine de Medici. I'd love some basil / pine nut pesto on that bad boy, though.

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"Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love." - Butch Hancock, Musician, The Flatlanders

This is what I miss about living in the Northeast (Jersey boy here!). No artichokes for me, though, with all due respect to Catherine de Medici. I'd love some basil / pine nut pesto on that bad boy, though.

Actually I usually leave off the artichoke myself

And the thing about hoagie goodness is how key the bread is -- South Philly is hoagie central for the entire city so we also have the bakeries that supply the top places with daily bread. It's all about this place. The bakery also runs a deli that makes hoagies around the corner and it's probably the #1 place IMO.

...And the thing about hoagie goodness is how key the bread is -- South Philly is hoagie central for the entire city so we also have the bakeries that supply the top places with daily bread. ...

Oh yeah.... crusty, chewy bread... I don't even need the accoutrements inside the hoagie! Texas is a bread wasteland.

Wumpy, are you going to extoll the virtues of Texas Toast? I picture you dipping thick slabs of white bread toast into cream gravy.

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"Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love." - Butch Hancock, Musician, The Flatlanders

Wumpy, are you going to extoll the virtues of Texas Toast? I picture you dipping thick slabs of white bread toast into cream gravy.

Oh yes yes yes. Nothing better than a nicely done Texas Toast with butter (not margarine) and placed face down on a skillet till goldn brown, then take that bad boy and run it through some thick peppery cream gravy. uhhhhh, YES!

and actually Dairy Queens Ssteak finger basket with texas toast and gravy is not bad . (I know youve had that Henry )

Guille, not for nothing, but the stuff you like to eat is rather deplorable. I bet you're a big fan of Steak n Shake.

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"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

Speaking of the ultimate in restaurant nastiness -- did you ever dare eat at a Tad's Steaks in NYC? I'm not even sure if they still exist, but they were there in the late 80's early 90's and one day a friend and I made a big dare to go eat there.

Also, can I just say O.M.G.! I had two frozen White Castle cheeseburgers five hours ago and ever since have been plagued by the worst Norvir related anal leakage -- skidmarks for days and the most horrendous gas. I finally pushed out two turds that looked like they came out of a corpse.